Alright, so I’m not having any ad issues with my desktop, but!... on my phone there is this amazon ad that completely takes over the webpage. It’s SO annoying. You have to exit the tab and restart to get it to go away.

I get the notice on my laptop but not my desktop. So when using my laptop, I resort to other news sites, and will do the same on my desktop if it shows up there, too. I don't mind a few discretely placed ads, but when the website more or less puts a gun to my face and tries to force me to see lots of trash google ads, I'm off.

So the site wanted me to disable ad-blocker after I ran CC cleaner on my computer. When some of you had already experienced problems and I hadn’t - I guess that was because I hadn’t run any cleaners for several weeks. So now I’m in the same boat as you all. My phone has actually never been a pain to use on the main site so that’s how I read CN now. The ad’s seem off to the side for the most part. But no, I won’t go there on my laptop anymore.

This is the "about the website" subforum, and until this morning the requirement to lift adblockers only applied to the site, now I have intrusive ads on the forum as well, and site and forum are both covered by one whitelisting/blacklisting on AdBlocker. Is this a new change today for other users?

That, plus the appallingly dismissive attitude of CN staff, including the editor, to posting spoilers on live text commentary, means that the adblocker stays on, and CN loses a reader for editorial content.

I’m not experiencing any problems on the forum. I was having the same problems on the main site with Adblock. I switched to Ublock and it wasn’t asking me to whitelist anymore. Thanks Netserk for the reminder about Ublock. Try that guys. It worked for me (I’m using Firefox).

I'm sorry but are you guys trying to sabotage your own site? Not in a million years am I disabling my blocker for that. I'm either going to try the Ublock option I see mentioned here (which I hope works since I do like the site) or find another way to get my news.

I was actually prepared to put up with some un-obnoxious ads but that's way over the line.

Squire wrote:I get the notice on my laptop but not my desktop. So when using my laptop, I resort to other news sites, and will do the same on my desktop if it shows up there, too. I don't mind a few discretely placed ads, but when the website more or less puts a gun to my face and tries to force me to see lots of trash google ads, I'm off.

So, today it showed up on my desktop computer as well. That's one less reader for cyclingnews.com, then.

They'll probably get around to detecting uBlock eventually but there are several ways around sites that try to stop people from blocking ads. I see no ads whatsoever and I'm not using any of the methods mentioned previously.

jaylew wrote:They'll probably get around to detecting uBlock eventually but there are several ways around sites that try to stop people from blocking ads. I see no ads whatsoever and I'm not using any of the methods mentioned previously.

jaylew wrote:They'll probably get around to detecting uBlock eventually but there are several ways around sites that try to stop people from blocking ads. I see no ads whatsoever and I'm not using any of the methods mentioned previously.

Also due to the way the site seems coded anytime I scroll for a brief second if you click afterwards anywhere it takes you to an advert. This is incredibly frustrating as I'm usually trying to click on an article. It's the same on both Chrome and Firefox for me.